 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - Počet stránok 468
...meet. U Nature Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely cwrb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the Ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide Tandy plains ; Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid jtow'r of underftanding fails ; Wh^re... | |
 | 1720 - Počet stránok 302
...dulncfs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fir,. And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains;. Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1749 - Počet stránok 110
...dulneftmeet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 5$ Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The foljd pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - Počet stránok 236
...always write as heavily as a dunce. An obfervation well worm the attention of all profound writers. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevail*, The folid pow'r of under/landing fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - Počet stránok 240
...wjlltilvyays write as heavily as a dunce. An obfervation well worth the attention of all profound writers. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevail*, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - Počet stránok 398
...r;ent, the Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - Počet stránok 264
...duluefs meet. Nature to all things nVd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit.. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains. 55 Thus in the foul, while memory prevails,. The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - Počet stránok 264
...dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains; J5 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - Počet stránok 280
...CRITICISM. 97 Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ; Where... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1758 - Počet stránok 112
...genius and poet frequently complain, who fays fo happily, as he did every thing, in one of his poems ; " As on the land, while here the ocean gains, ^ " In other parts it leaves wide fandy, plains ; " Thus in the foul while memory prevails, " The folid power of underftanding fails.... | |
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And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play,... 
